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Robert Capa · Czechoslovakia

Exhibition #2429 (1955)

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Photographer: Robert Capa
Country: Czechoslovakia
Section: sec-marriage-birth
Clervaux display: unknown

The story

Drawn from research/photographs/photo-0023.md — the canonical research note. Provenance and primary-source documentation live there; this is the reader-friendly summary.

Subject and context

Per the Master Checklist, Section 3 Marriage opens with Capa’s plate and runs through #32. Caption 3 (“Pueblo Indian, ‘We shall be one person.’”) installs to the top left of plate #27 (Horvat). No specific Capa work is identified with this plate in any source fetched this round; the photograph’s subject is not described by the checklist itself, and no secondary Capa catalogue was consulted this round.

Reception / analysis

Not written this round.

Perspective notes

Curatorial (MoMA 1955): opens Section 3 Marriage with a Magnum photographer who had died eight months before the exhibition — one of two Magnum photographers lost in 1954 (Bischof, #30 and #217, photo-0027 and photo-0208, died nine days earlier in Peru).
Critical / institutional: Capa’s legacy is maintained by the International Center of Photography, founded by his brother Cornell Capa in part to preserve Robert Capa’s archive (the 1974 founding year is recorded in src-nyt-1954-capa-obit Notes as carried from pre-existing scholarship; that source is verified: false because the NYT archive was not fetchable this round).

Open questions

The specific Czech location and date of the photograph.
Whether the print originated with Capa directly, was printed from his negative posthumously for the exhibition, or came through Magnum — not attested in any source fetched this round.
Whether MoMA’s permanent collection holds the print.
Whether the print is among the Clervaux Castle holdings.

Catalog notes

Checklist #26, Section 3 Marriage. Robert Capa, Magnum, American per checklist. The biographical detail previously asserted on this row (verbatim: Capa was born Endre Friedmann in Hungary, 1913; later naturalized) is NOT verified against any in-repo source; no dedicated Robert Capa biographical source file currently exists in the repo (cross-references: src-nyt-1954-capa-obit (in repo, NOT re-fetched this round)). Removed pending a future verification pass. Print 36 1/2 x 53 1/2 cm. Section 3 ‘Marriage’ is assigned to the sec-marriage-birth cluster in data/sections.csv.

Sources

src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist